The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-08
ALLY NEWsPALATKA FLORIDA FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 1887


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says:
| Il have just returned from trip
through the State, and the enterprise in
/ Connection with newspapers and the sup
/ mort of them IL much more advanced
| than in the North or South. In Hutch
| inson. Kan. the merchants. supported by
the city council, appropriated Ss'e.ooo for
| the establishment of daily paper and
| gave So 900 for the Associated Press fran
| cbis.. This il a common occurrence in
| the West.
Ii Is not alone for the sake of the news
that the merchants of Hutchinson and
! other towns in Kansas. in Dakota and
| markedly in Oregon. lend their aid and
! subscribe their money literally for the
| establishment of daily newspapers. They
are men of business. They are not
| afraid to- have their towns grow, not
| afraid to have more customers III their
| stores more tenants for their HOUSES
more manufactures started. They know
that a good daily newspaper is the best
| advertisement any town can have. They
are aware that people of tine
settled and thriving communities
of the East, before settling in
another city. ask: Has it good schools
for our children: Has. it daily paper:
Thew know too, that what capitalists
| consider in choosing place for the in
vestment of their surplus, besides the
natural advantages for business is ARE
the inhabitants of this place energetic
enough to establish daily newspaper:
As a well known man of business once
said: The town that does not support
| a good newspaper is the town where the
| inhabitants resist the march of Improv-
ments and prefer to drift back To the
| eighteenth century, where there are no
| improvements, where there Is no bust
ness except sluggish and decaying
| trade. where those who wish To do a
! benefit by bringing new trade into the
| place are looked ON with suspicion and
| distrust, Just as a savage regards every
\ stranger as an enemy to- be- killed.
| That picture is perhaps Overdr:iwn. 1t
! is still true. however. that a town with
out good newspaper Is a town seldom
heard of, which capitalists pass by for
one where the publication of an actual
newspaper advertises it as a place in
which intelligent citizens keep up to the
times. \ town without "A newspaper
has no means of presenting its advan-
| tages in print. n town needs to- adver-
tise itself to grow, just as a merchant
needs To advertise in order that
his business may not fall behind
The necessity only ceases when
the streams of commerce have worn
channels in the direction of that partic
ular centre of population Extracts
from a live paper in other Journals,
stray copies sent mailed to persons III
other cities, and that regular subscrip-
ton list abroad which every established
newspaper can boast in addition to its
home circulation. all advertise the city
in which the paper is published.
A town needs a newspaper to defend
il from the attacks of malicious or in
teresied parties who desire to destroy its
trade or its reputation in behalf of some
rival city: from the schemes of corrupt
politicians which are sometimes rushed
through Legislature before the citizens
who are injured by these plots are
aware of their existence Palatka Is in
no danger just now from that source,
but it might be- in the future.
But, above all, a town needs a
newspaper To keep its inhabitants i'll
formed of the news and abreast
of the times. To furnish its business
men with the latest market reports that
they may know where To buy to the
greatest advantage, to- afford vehicle,
for the introduction of new ideas, a
means for the discussion of public affairs.
The man who hates public improvements
because they increase his taxes which.
after all. he never pays il he can avoid
it. who. like the savage, looks ON the
stranger as an enemy, who abhors
anything that arOuses him from
the semi-somnOlence which he mistakes
for life and activity. this man does not
want daily paper. The citizen who
protests that the world does not move
and the ways of his father are as good
now as they were fifty and seventy five
years ago is an enemy To the daily news
paper and inveighs against it. So the
bat. when some explorer brings a torch
| Alito MS NehNCr liONtotH SEtiiiAoh ti' hShs
and seeks to dash himself against it in
order to put it out.
But all modern men hail the advent
of the daily newspaper with pleasure
and know that it is their friend in the
office, the parlor. the church. the place
of pleasure, their welcome companion at
the breakfast table and their ever watch
full friend abroad. And in the great
West. with its rapidly growing towns,
where real estate sometimes appreciates
over one hundred per cent. in value in a
years time they not only subscribe for
their daily paper, they bolster it up with
ample capital. THE PALATRA NEWS
asks no aid. Ii needs none. Ii has
prospered already beyond the dreams of
its projectors. IL presents these facts
only for the consideration of the very
few now left in Putnam county and
South Florida who still complain that
they don't see what folks want with a
daily paper here, nohow.
Frank Winn, precocious young col
| ored hoy of Dallas, Tex, has shown con